CAORC is currently accepting fellowship applications for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship and the CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship! Check out the CAORC website to learn more! caorc.org/fellowships
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One hump or two, the camel was known in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE onward as the “elephant of the caravan” or “elephant of the mountain. “Camel” came later. Read "Camels in the Biblical World of the Ancient Near East": buff.ly/3S0lify
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Tomorrow (Sept. 15th) is the last day to register at the Super Saver rate for ASOR's 2022 Annual Meeting. Learn more and register for the meeting here: buff.ly/3yz2GLe
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Sign up and attend! I will offer up provocative (!) connections between ancient Egyptian kingship and modern authoritarianism. 🖤
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Just over a week left before our next FOA webinar, "The Good Kings: The Modern Obsession with Ancient Egyptian Kingship" with Kara Cooney on Sept. 15th. Register today! buff.ly/3drWHkH
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Bruno Barros, recipient of an ASOR Fieldwork Scholarship, joined the 2022 Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition looking for answers for his Ph.D. research on Neo-Assyrian expansion in the Southern Levant. Read Bruno's reflections on fieldwork at Tel Azekah: buff.ly/3DqzUAz
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How does war impact students, scholars, archaeological sites, heritage & museums?
Who benefits from this violence?
What do Antiquity & legal scholars from/working on Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine & Yemen have to say on the matter?
Join us 09.16 to find out!
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The ASOR Ad Hoc Climate Impact Committee wants to hear from you about your annual meeting attendance, and what you think ASOR should do to reduce its contribution to climate change at the Annual Meeting and beyond. Take the survey here:
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ASOR partnered with Laboratoire Régions et Ressources patrimoniales de Tunisie de l’Université de Manouba on an event celebrating the Jewish heritage of Nabeul, Tunisia. This event is part of a project on religious and ethnic minority sites in the Maghreb. buff.ly/3B10M7v
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Just over a week left before our next FOA webinar, "The Good Kings: The Modern Obsession with Ancient Egyptian Kingship" with Kara Cooney on Sept. 15th. Register today! buff.ly/3drWHkH
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In the medieval Southern Levant sugar was an important cash crop. Texts and archaeological remains of sugar manufacturing allow for the process to be reconstructed. Read "Medieval Sugar Production in the Southern Levant": buff.ly/3B7Nq9I
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Check out this upcoming FOA webinar featuring Dr. Brenda Baker, "Life and Death along the Nile: Insights from the Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition," on Sept. 29th! buff.ly/3qeFzll
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Read this week's Ancient Near East Today article, "Breaking the Code: Ancient Iran’s Linear Elamite Script Deciphered." buff.ly/3RpUSU0
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The Society for Classical Studies is now accepting submissions for the Erich S. Gruen Prize for the best graduate research paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean. The prize is a cash award of $1,000 and the deadline is October 7, 2022.
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Karaites are the longest surviving community of non-rabbinic Jews, but for over a thousand years the sect has been alternately ignored and misunderstood. A new book by Daniel J. Lasker is bringing them into better focus. buff.ly/3QR3t2c
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Funding opportunity! Researchers can apply for a Getty Library Research Grant. These grants provide support for researchers who seek to utilize our Conservation Collection of materials related to the preservation & conservation of cultural heritage. gty.art/3C5vqPh
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Don't forget to register for our next FOA webinar happening this Sunday, Aug. 28th at 6 pm EDT! Join us for "Columns as Cultural Capital: The Jordanian Practice of Gifting Archaeological Objects." buff.ly/3AYCht3
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Are you a #graduate or #undergraduate student in #Archaeology or #Anthropology presenting research at upcoming conferences? We want to help you get there! Apply for up to $1000 in travel funding with our Pass The Mic program!
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Read this week's Ancient Near East Today article: "The ‘Biblical Origins’ of the Etruscans in the 16th Century CE and Their Impact on European Politics" by Maurizio Harari. buff.ly/3QSvWEp
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Job Posting: The Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, , seeks to appoint a tenure track assistant professor who specializes in #Arabic and Islamic studies in the Middle East and North Africa prior to 1800.
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Rosemary Hanson received a 2022 Platt Fieldwork Scholarship to work with the Kites in Context project in Jordan this summer. Read Hanson's impressions of the landscape and excavating in the Jordanian Desert, "The Colors of the Badia." buff.ly/3pq3Sg2
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The deadline for 2022 Annual Meeting Student Travel Grants is next Monday, August 22nd. Apply today!
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Coming up next month! Friends of ASOR is excited to announce the webinar "The Good Kings: The Modern Obsession with Ancient Egyptian Kingship" featuring Prof. Kara Cooney on Sept. 15th. Learn more here: buff.ly/3drWHkH
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The Neo-Assyrian and Egyptian Empires were bitter rivals in the first millennium BCE. Despite its size and antiquity, Egypt was simply another conquest added to Assyria’s multicultural empire. Read "The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Egypt" by Mattias Karlsson: buff.ly/3SAaG89
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📅 SAVE THE DATE! Our annual, virtual 'Opening the Ancient World' conference shall take place on the 14th and 15th August 2022.
➡️ Follow this link to find out more: saveancientstudies.org/virtual-confer
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Join us for the next FOA webinar on Sunday, August 28 at 6:00pm EDT: "Columns as Cultural Capital: The Jordanian Practice of Gifting Archaeological Objects," featuring Prof. Elizabeth R. Macaulay. buff.ly/3vN3dIP
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The Getty Research Institute is now accepting applications for Residential Grants and Fellowships. The 2023-2024 themes are Art & Technology, African American Art History, and the Classical World in Context: Anatolia. Applications are due October 3, 2022. buff.ly/3SvFaIo
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Read this week's Ancient Near East Today article, "Ancient Egyptian Food Prohibitions," by Youri Volokhine: buff.ly/3BHnGTa
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FOA Webinar 2022-2023 Season Pass Now Available! This season pass includes automatic registration for all FOA webinars. Season pass holders will receive Zoom access to each live webinar event and the webinar recording automatically after the event. buff.ly/3zTWMGv
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The National Humanities Center will offer up to 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities for the 2023–24 academic year. The deadline to apply is Oct. 6, 2022. Help us spread the word about this exciting opportunity.
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Call for Submissions: The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Read the journal submission guidelines here: journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/i
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Last day to submit a poster for the 2022 Annual Meeting! Posters are an ideal format for presenting archaeological projects in general; a technical aspect of a project; a spectacular find from the field season; or complex graphic and/or quantitative data. buff.ly/3OhuASY
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The kings of New Kingdom Egypt controlled a large and complicated empire that had powerful rivals. Their main foreign policy tool was war, but rigid thinking was another enemy. Read "Decision Making and Leadership in Egyptian Warfare" by Anthony Spalinger:
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Are you a student at an ASOR member school who is traveling to Boston for the ASOR Annual Meeting this year? Apply for a Student Travel Grant to help with the cost of travel! Read more about AM Student Travel Grants here: buff.ly/3PsCsB4
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Reminder: The deadline to submit a poster for the 2022 ASOR Annual Meeting is just over a week away on August 1st. buff.ly/3OhuASY
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Most archaeologists study dead societies but ethnoarchaeologists look at living ones. On Cyprus, studying modern potters has yielded important insights into the past, including some that are unpredictable. Read "Ethnoarchaeology in Cyprus": buff.ly/3PH2JMd
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Register for our next FOA webinar on Sunday, August 28 at 6:00pm EDT, "Columns as Cultural Capital: The Jordanian Practice of Gifting Archaeological Objects," featuring Prof. Elizabeth R. Macaulay. buff.ly/3AYCht3
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Check out the recording of the first event in ASOR's Early Career Scholars, "Research in Action" series, featuring Katie Paul of the ATHAR Project: "Social Media's Antiquities Black Market: Tracking a New Generation of Traffickers" buff.ly/3o1lM7U
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What is the significance of decorated bone inlays in Middle Bronze Age II assemblages in Lachish? Find out in the newest issue of the Bulletin of ASOR, a journal of : ow.ly/t3q250JF9TA
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Annual Meeting Early Bird prices end this Friday, July 15. Registration includes both virtual (Oct. 19-23) and in-person (Nov. 16-19) components. Save $40 by registering for the meeting before the end of the day on Friday. buff.ly/3uEzhhG
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